On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 05:35:31AM -0400, Alan Brown wrote: > On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, James Sneeringer wrote: > > Notice how the error is almost exactly 4 minutes after the connection > > opened? Outlook's "server timeout" option is probably set to 4 minutes. > > Increasing the timeout setting will help. I think Outlook will let you > > set it as high as 10 minutes. > > In a lot of cases on dialups, 10 minutes isn't long enough. > The only solution which works well is not to use LookOut
Changing mailers may not help so much. Any mailer that times out after some period of perceived server inactivity will do the same thing. If your mailer can be configured to wait forever, then I guess you won't have a problem. The real problem is Norton (or whatever AV program in use). Norton could possibly get around this by spoofing some sort of keepalive to the POP3 client, so it will think the connection is still alive, but this is well beyond the realm of qpopper. -James
